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" Have thou respect unto the prayer 
of thy servant, and to his supplication, 
O Lord my God, to hearken unto the 
cry and to the prayer which thy serv- 
ant prayeth before thee this day." 

I Kings 8 : 28. 



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Copyright, 1915, 

By UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE 

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1915 

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THE CHOICE FELLOWSHIP OF THE CHURCH 
AND COLLEGE THROUGH WHICH IT HAS BEEN 
MY PRIVILEGE TO SERVE; TO THE FRIEND 
WHOSE INTEREST AND APPRECIATION 
CALLED THIS BOOK OF PRAYERS INTO 
existence; AND TO ALL LONGING SOULS 
WHO PRAY THAT THE SPIRITUAL MESSAGE 
MAY BE SHAPED INTO FORMS OF THOUGHT, 
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, IN THE HOPE THAT 
IT MAY MINISTER TO THE PERFECT LIFE. 



preface 

Most of the College prayers printed 
in this book were given to friends who 
asked for them at the time the prayers 
were said. They are now quite as really 
the gift of these friends as of him who 
spoke them at first. 

What is herein said in the name of the 
Church may serve to call back days 
when young men took up her vows and 
went forth to do her work. 

What is herein set down in the name 
of gracious and grateful memories will 
be read by revering souls in the thought 
of a fresh bereavement, and in the com- 
fort of a maturer trust. 

What is herein said in the assured 
belief that in life's evening the soul looks 



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to God, is said in regret, indeed, in view 
of life's failures, but more in a tranquil 
faith, and in a lofty sense of what is good 
and divine. 

On the whole, for the sake of an urgent 
request, I should like to feel that the 
book has in it an awakening of the Easter 
message, and a reviving confidence in the 
Risen One and Redeemer. 

C. H. L. 

Tufts College, 
Easter, 1915. 



Contents: 

Page 

COLLEGE PRAYERS 

For Light and Peace 13 

For Distinctive Education 17 

For An Open Way 19 

For A Widened Horizon 21 

For An Ampler Faith 23 

For Devotion to Life's Needs ... 25 

For Light from Light 27 

For Consecrated Intelligence ... 29 

For An Inspired Life 31 

For An Inclusive Culture ..... 33 

For A Brightening Future 35 

For The Culture of Character . . 39 

For Helpful Service 43 

For The Unfolding Life of the Col- 
lege (Semi-Centennial) 45 

THE CHURCH AND ITS MINISTRY 

For The Fruitful Years (Semi-Cen- 
tennial) 49 

For Grace and Vision (Ordination) . 53 

For Self-Giving (Ordination) .... 57 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



For Consecration of Pastor and 

People (Installation) 61 

For Oneness with Christ (Communion) 67 



IN GRATEFUL MEMORY 

Of E. H. C. — A Fruitful Life . . 
Of T. J. S. — An Endowed Leader 
Of I. W. C. — One Called of God 
Of A Friend — A Living Life . . . 
Of Mrs. R. — A Ripened Life . . 
Of B. B. C. — A Life of Beautiful 

Service 

Of A. H. — A Life of Grace and Power 



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81 
85 
89 

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IN LIFE'S EVENING 

(Prayers said, and to be said, in private.) 

For The Power To Reflect 
For The New Dawn .... 
For The Soul's Life in God 
For The Power To Aspire . 
For The Grace of God . . 
For The Soul's Sovereignty 
For The Enterprise of Love 



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" He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to 
them that know understanding." 

Daniel 2:21. 




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GOD, our heavenly Father: 
We rejoice that, amid all the 
changing years, Thou art the 
same, and that to Thy years there is no 
end. We thank Thee for a great in- 
heritance, and a great history in all 
things that make for learning and for 
righteousness, for the peace and light 
that more and more have come to this 
college, and for the light and peace that 
have here been more and more shed 
abroad to enlighten and to comfort. 

We remember before Thee the found- 
ers and favorers of this college, and all 

Commemoration Sunday, June 18, 1905. The motto 
of Tufts College is "Pax et Lux." 

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those who have watched over its growth 
and held it in wise and affectionate 
regard. 

We are glad, also, for those who have 
found here a growing life, and noble 
preparation for a various duty and citi- 
zenship. 

Help us, therefore, this day, not 
only in a reviving memory of productive 
years, and the gifted lives that have 
shaped our way, but help us in view of 
what we are in this present, and in view 
of the promise of what, in Thy great 
goodness, the new day will bring to us. 
We commit the college, ourselves, all we 
are and have, to Thee, in new resolve 
and new devotion with respect to the 
great causes which are inseparable from 
our history, and our daily work and 
care. 

Command Thy blessing upon this oc- 



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casion, and upon all who are here pres- 
ent before Thee, for all our days and all 
our lives are Thine: through Jesus 
Christ, our Lord. Amen. 




Jfor Btetmcttoe Cbucatton 

GOD, who art the Giver of 
light and of understanding, help 
us to-day to see what is our 
distinctive cast of ability and of power, 
that so we may estimate aright the 
work of the teacher in the greater of- 
fices of education, and in the ennobling 
results of character and experience. We 
rejoice to-day in the collective service of 
the college, and in its allegiance to a dis- 
tinctive truth. We thank Thee for the 
yesterdays of patient preparation, of 
growing discipline, and for the new 
sphere of opportunity into which now 
these eager students are thrown. Save 
them, we beseech Thee, from self-isola- 
tion. Open their hearts to the appeals 

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of Providence, and to the noblest disci- 
pline of humanity. Give to them the 
happy choices by which all selfish ease 
is broken, and all inspired effort com- 
pleted. Grant to them now even a 
greater measure of tranquillity as they 
stand at the very gate of privilege. 
Keep them in the pure love of knowl- 
edge, and in the sacred thirst for truth 
and the spiritual good. Give also to the 
college this day joy and thanks, in view 
of all its tasks, and its constant call. 
Amen. 




Sot an <^pen 

GOD, the Giver of all good: 
We rejoice this day in all the 
promises of our special college 
circle, and in the living seal that Thou 
hast put upon all right endeavor that 
has here been put forth. We rejoice in 
all noble aims, in all intellectual gifts, 
and in all spoken and silent accom- 
plishments for character and scholarship. 
Hear our prayer for all opening life in 
those who this day go forth to meet 
life's care and work. Make for them an 
open way for trust, for courage, for skill, 
and for that love which triumphs over 
all depressing care, that finds the light 
through and above all dark clouds, and 
fills the opening future with forms of 

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light. What marks this interesting hour 
is not the close but the continuance of 
opportunity. Be, therefore, with these 
various young lives in all personal labor 
and human service, to the end that free- 
dom may become its distinctive privi- 
lege, its growing enthusiasm, and its 
sustained diligence. Amen. 




Jfor a OTtbeneb 1%$m}tm 

GOD, who art the Giver of life 
and the Author of all good, 
help us on this our day of gra- 
cious memories, of eager ambitions, and 
of assured success, to the end that we 
may see the way we have come, and the 
new road that invites our thought, our 
most generous will, and our largest 
hopes. We rejoice to-day in the wid- 
ened horizon, the unexplored life, and 
the possible achievement, for these are 
Thy gifts to all souls who have not 
fallen from their first intent, and who 
now come to take up the vow of self 
devotion. Keep these lives, we beseech 
Thee, in balanced power; give to them 
a more discerning insight, a stronger 

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purpose and will, a deepening compas- 
sion. Create within them the conscious- 
ness of all historic life, so that they may 
know that they belong to a spiritual kin- 
dred. May they take with them, as 
they go hence, the gains of a positive 
knowledge with which the college life has 
enriched them. Help them to face, with 
a quiet eye and a strong heart, the world 
of opportunity. Hear also our prayer 
this day for this college, its overseers, its 
officers, and faculties. Help us to see 
that the true and the good can never be 
severed in our aspirations, nor in our 
trust. Amen. 




Jfor an Ampler Jfattfi 

GOD, who givest truth for the 
mind, law for the conscience, 
and love for man's affections, 
visit our college circle this day, when we 
come to face results in intelligence, in 
right purpose, and in the mature wis- 
dom of the soul. Grant to-day some 
clear insight of the product of student 
years, a calmer confidence in the high 
offices of opportunity, and in the schol- 
ar's call to serve the growing need of the 
world. To this end, grant an ampler 
faith in man's possibilities, a more pa- 
tient hope for man's use of a disciplined 
intelligence, and a growing courage along 
the years in view of the suffering need of 
the world. Help them to confide in the 

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inner realities of human life, and to give 
themselves, more and more, to aspira- 
tion and trust. 

Hear to-day the prayers of parents 
and friends that this young life, now 
swayed with the new sense of responsi- 
bility, may rejoice, not that the hour of 
release has come, but that the dawn of a 
new day smiles for thought and effort. 
Grant new light and peace to this col- 
lege; guard anew its wise and eager 
oversight; and help its officers and 
teachers in all their cares and trusts. 
Amen. 




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THOU, who art the Teacher of 
all those who serve Thee in the 
schools of the world, and espe- 
cially of those who serve Thee in the 
higher institutions of learning, we rejoice 
in their devotion to the great interests of 
the intellectual life, and to the recurrent 
call of the reopening thought, and to the 
methods of the new day. Help us in 
the study of that progressive endeavor, 
which here and now this day celebrates. 
We yield to the swift retrospect of the 
appointed years of study, and to the 
maturer vision of the years of promise 
that here to-day holds the near yester- 
days of student life in review, and waits 
before the quick path of a special devo- 
tion to the world of need. 

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Grant unto these young men and 
women the patience of hope, the vigor 
of faith after struggle, and the calm as- 
surance of disciplined faculties. Anew 
to-day we give this college to the great 
offices of light and peace. Anew we ask 
for a continued loyal oversight and a 
strong immediate devotion of those who 
have known her protection and guidance 
along the years. Open all our souls 
to the quest of the future, and to the 
nobler vision of truth and goodness. 
Amen. 




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GOD, who art Light and livest 
in light, grant unto this day 
the revealing light of a growing 
intelligence, the deepening light of in- 
vigorating purpose, and the ever-widen- 
ing light of love. Grant also unto this 
day and this occasion, which is at once 
an ending and a beginning, the seal of 
Thy divine approval, and the aid of that 
inspiration which is always from above, 
and more and more along the path of 
larger knowledge, a growing virtue, and 
an ampler faith. Here to-day for these 
waiting students is the approval of in- 
terested teachers, the joy of parents and 
the welcoming interest of friends. 

Grant Thy blessing upon this waiting 

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young life, and open to it more and more 
the chosen way, and the vaster oppor- 
tunity. Give to this eager life the 
steady toil in view of the world's grow- 
ing activities and its manifold needs. 
Save us, we beseech Thee, from all task- 
work, and increase in us all generous en- 
thusiasms. What more can we ask than 
that we be held to the attractions of all 
light, and to the service of all that is 
right and holy, that so we may be kept 
in simplicity and faithfulness. In the 
name and as the disciples of Jesus 
Christ. Amen. 




Jfor Consiecrateb Sntelltgence 

GOD, to whom can we go on 
this day of great memories and 
of disciplined anticipations, but 
to Thee who dost endow the years and 
hallow all human endeavors! Teach us 
to listen anew to the voices of the years 
that have been spent in the study of 
inviting subjects, amid the wholesome 
rivalries of the classroom. Guard us 
against the intellectual vagrancies of all 
false effort, and cheer us along the future 
way by the gracious persuasiveness of 
student comradeship and the ennobling 
call from the world of activities. We re- 
joice to-day in the wise faithfulness of 
devoted teachers, and in all their efforts 
in this place, to honor learning, to in- 

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spire students with the love of knowledge, 
and to endow them with the passion for 
a noble career in the world that calls for 
a consecrated intelligence. 

Hear our prayer to-day for the growth 
of the college in opportunity and privi- 
lege, that so it may be at once an invi- 
tation and a challenge. Give wisdom to 
those who are set to watch over its out- 
ward growth, and give a distinctive 
knowledge to its president and faculty. 

For what, O God, do we wait, but for 
Thy blessing! Through Jesus Christ, 
our Lord. Amen. 




Jfor an 3fas;ptreb Htfe 

GOD, who art all wise, we re- 
joice to-day in the product of 
the years, in their value to us 
in discipline and culture. Above all we 
rejoice in the specific gift to this college 
of a maturer manhood and womanhood 
in those who to-day stand on the thresh- 
old of a serving future. We rejoice in 
the sphere of opportunity into which 
they are now thrown, and in the many- 
handed service that beckons to their in- 
telligence and devotion. 

Hear the prayer of parents and friends 
that to-day goes up in behalf of this 
eager company who come to give their 
youth and strength to the obligation of 
life's practical duties. Teach them the 

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great lessons of forbearance and grati- 
tude. Help them and help us all to seek 
the peace of Christian charity. Grant 
also unhesitating reverence for the true 
and the good. Refresh us in sorrows, if 
such come to us; give victory in moral 
struggle; and unite us more and more to 
the majesty of an inspired life. Amid 
the distracting turmoil of the world, 
grant us the victory of a lasting peace. 
Amen. 




Jfor an Smlusitoe Culture 

LMIGHTY God, our heavenly 
Father: Thou, who dost shape 
all history, inspire all human 
progress and all effort for personal ad- 
vancement in intellectual life and good- 
ness: hear our prayer in behalf of this 
college and its continuously directed in- 
fluence in behalf of the eager young life 
that seeks its guiding power for culture 
and character. Help us to count up 
into the sum of actual life and accom- 
plishment, all the offices of a skilled 
guardianship and a wise instruction, that 
so results may appear in disciplined 
thought, in invigorated moral life, and 
in a nobler manhood and womanhood. 
So help them, we beseech Thee, that the 

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very principle of goodness may assert its 
vitality, and put forth in more beautiful 
growths. Grant to us the holy fresh- 
ness of penitence; restore to us the for- 
gotten accents of conscience; move us 
by the inspiration of a real mission and 
the nobler enterprise of love. Hear our 
prayer in behalf of all right efforts in 
education. O Thou, who dost touch all 
the springs of human power, save us 
from anxious care, and open our gaze to 
the repose of faith and trust. Amen. 




jfor a prigfitenmg Jfuture 

THOU, the only wise God, the 
Father of light, and the Source 
of all knowledge! Send down 
Thy heavenly blessing upon this college, 
and upon the occasion that has brought 
us together. We rejoice to-day in all 
the activities that have their center in 
this place by which intelligence is hon- 
ored, virtue exalted, and true religion in- 
creased. We remember before Thee all 
those who have known the gracious fel- 
lowship of student years, and to-day call 
back the joy when hopes were large, the 
tension also of noble effort, and all the 
triumph of happy hours. Grant, now, 
that the light which so gladdened them 

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may shine upon the path that opens to- 
day for so many young and eager feet. 
Fulfil the desires of parents and friends 
as these go forth to share in the attrac- 
tive duties, and the peace and progress 
of the world; and bestow upon them 
and upon us some vision of a brighten- 
ing future for all true learning. Give 
ampler life to all schools and colleges 
and universities; and to all nations and 
peoples give growing knowledge, the 
tranquil power of faith, of abiding hope, 
and the love of goodness and concord. 

With Thee, O God, are the issues of 
all our endeavor. Help us, therefore, to 
take up the accent of a new trust, and 
to send forth the plaint of a new desire, 
that so we may be worthy stewards of a 
great inheritance; and, to this end, mer- 
cifully save us from the disquietude of 
the spirit; and keep us in the high fel- 



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lowship of faith, of disinterested love, 
and of unanxious will. We ask these 
things in the name and as the disciples 
of Jesus Christ. Amen. 




Jfor tfje Culture of Character 

GOD, our heavenly Father, 
with whom are all the treas- 
ures of understanding, who dost 
give calm wisdom and virtue from gen- 
eration to generation, and by whose 
mercy knowledge is increased, intelli- 
gence spread abroad, and the light of 
truth made to shine on the nations: 
Send down Thy heavenly blessing upon 
this college, upon this day, and upon the 
congregation here assembled. We re- 
joice in the noble host here made ready 
along the productive years for large and 
fruitful work in the wide service of the 
world; and we rejoice in those who, this 
day, go forth from these halls with aca- 

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demic honors to join the great company. 
We thank Thee for the mastery of diffi- 
culties; for enlargement of life; for 
deepening resource; for a joyous sense 
of victory; and for the continuous worth 
of responsibility. We thank Thee, also, 
for that fellowship of students and schol- 
ars which binds us to the great teachers 
of all time, and makes sure to the hum- 
blest the heritage of the race in personal 
capacity, in a growing sense of intellec- 
tual freedom and in the enduring quali- 
ties of sympathy and patience. 

And grant, O God, some new tide of 
power to bear us on to nobler things and 
vaster. Inspire us more and more with 
the quest of truth, and keep before us 
the vision of a perfect state for the in- 
dividual and for society. Save us from 
selfish preoccupation, and help us to put 
first the things that are first, — the 



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graces of the soul and the nobler culture 
of character. 

Command Thy blessing upon those 
whose duty it is to watch over the inter- 
ests of this college, and upon those 
whose beneficent art it is to teach our 
youth, and to lead the way to a wider 
learning, and an ampler life; and, of 
Thy great goodness, deepen in us the 
spirit of surrender to Thy will, that, in 
this place, and in all places of instruc- 
tion and learning, there may be wisdom 
and simplicity, strength and tenderness, 
in larger and purer adjustment, all our 
days through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
Amen. 



Jfor Helpful berime 

GOD, the Giver of light and 
hope: We rejoice in Thy guid- 
*^|y^ ance, as, year after year, we 
come to this place and yield to the sanc- 
tion of the wisdom which is from above, 
and of that mercy which redeems the 
hard severities of the world and forever 
educates an enveloping strength. Here 
together, year after year, we have learned 
the constraints and the aspirations of life 
and character. Help us as we stand on 
the threshold of a great world where 
careers are fixed, and destiny shaped. 
Here to-day is the seclusion of our effort 
and its constant ministry; there, in the 
to-morrow, we take up the complexity 
of life, where the reins are not taken out 

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of the hands of judgment, and yet where 
pity and love are patient and hopeful. 
Give to us to-day some nearer sight of a 
higher grade of thought and feeling, that 
so we may be girded for a helpful ser- 
vice in the name of the world's deliver- 
ance. Make us grateful for a wise and 
patient guidance along the way; and 
give to us hopeful guidance on all the 
future path. Shield the young life of 
this hour. Help it to achieve freedom, 
to rule in Thy name, and to know the 
prerogatives of the individual, and the 
high sense of fellowship. Through Jesus 
Christ, our Lord. Amen. 




Jfor tfje <Blttfotomg Me of tfie 
College 

GOD, who art the same yester- 
day and forever: Help us to 
hold by the real quality of our 
passing years, in view of what Thou art 
as the Author of all good, and the in- 
spirer of all human thought and effort. 
We remember before Thee to-day the 
founders and favorers of this college. 
We rejoice that Thou didst move them 
to build the college in this place, and so 
to endue and endow it, that fortunate 
years have marked its history. We re- 
joice also that year by year friends, who 
have seen the need and felt the power of 
the college, have yielded to the attrac- 

Semi-Centennial . 
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46 LIGHT AND PEACE 

tive service of its scholarship, and to the 
eager devotion of its teachers and its 
students. We yield to-day to a gracious 
memory of inspired beginnings, of un- 
folding life and of chastened results in 
disciplined character. Give us the cour- 
age which comes as the endowment of 
the years; and awaken within us a dis- 
cerning zeal for the true and the good, 
for light and peace, that they may be 
maintained in harmony. Give to us 
here to-day the prophetic spirit, that we 
may not linger with the materials of 
knowledge, but face more and more the 
inner realities of human life, and of all 
aspiration and trust. Save us this day 
from all perverse discontent, and open 
our souls more and more to fresh sacri- 
fices and enthusiasms. Amen. 



^tie Cfmrcf) anb 3te JWmtetrp 

1 As the hart panteth after the waterbrooks, 
So panteth my soul after thee, O God. 
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : 
When shall I come and appear before God? " 

Psalm 42: 1-2. 




Jfor tfje Jfruftful gear* 

LMIGHTY GOD, our heavenly 
Father: We rejoice that Thou 
art the same yesterday, to-day, 
and forever, and that to Thy years there 
is no end. All our life and all our ways 
begin in Thee, and end in Thee. Thou 
dost also attend us in all our endeavors, 
and in all the movements of our human 
life. All great causes are with Thee, 
and Thou dost give motive with regard 
to them to all Thy servants and chil- 
dren. 

We thank Thee to-day that Thou 
didst put it into the hearts of Thy serv- 
ants of the earlier time to found this 

Semi-Centennial of the Univeralist Church, Medford, 
Mass. 

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Christian society, and that Thou didst 
enable them, in all their effort and care 
for the sake of the wider faith and the 
larger hope. We thank Thee for the 
self-sacrificing men and women who 
brought hither their best gifts, and, 
above all, their true lives, and pledged 
them all in the name of religion. 

Help us to see also what recurring 
faithfulness and religious devotion have 
been here along all the productive years 
of this great history, the unbroken tes- 
timony in behalf of Christian thought, 
and the continuous witness concerning 
the worth of things true and good as 
originating in Thy love as source, and in 
Thy Son as the divine way, and in souls 
that deeply responded to Thy word, and 
to the inspiration of Thy holy purpose. 

We rejoice in those who are with us 
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LIGHT AND PEACE 51 

sense of brotherhood, the noble band of 
men and women who here, in all these 
recent years, have been constant to a 
great memory, to a great calling, and to 
a great promise. We remember, before 
Thee, those who have ministered here at 
this altar, and broken the bread of life 
in the face of the great congregation. 
And hear us for the one devoted life here 
given to-day for the best good of this 
parish, and this community. May he, 
and all who worship in this place, hear 
the voices that speak across the years, 
and more and more, as from open skies, 
and more and more from that teaching 
that is always strong and gentle and 
easy to be entreated. 

Command now Thy blessing upon this 
joyous anniversary; and while we count 
up the days and years into the sum of 
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the things that make for simpler lives 
amid all the stress and .hurry of the 
world. Keep us in living association 
with a great past, in vital communion 
with an encouraging present, and in 
hopeful interest and affection concern- 
ing the future. Help us to show the 
signs of a willing pupilage; and make 
us more trustful in Thy love, and more 
alive to the thoughts that drop and 
breathe from a heavenlier world. And 
hear us, O God, in the one petition that 
stands in the center of our prayer, that 
we may be right and good, maintaining 
a resolute fidelity, an unanxious joy, 
and a deepening peace, — through Jesus 
Christ, our Lord. Amen. 



Jfor dlrace anb ^teton 

GOD, our heavenly Father, 
send down Thy blessing upon 
•^|y^ these, Thy servants, whom we 
bless in Thy name. We remember be- 
fore Thee their early vows; the growing 
purpose of their hearts; the hopes of 
parents; their years of wise waiting and 
study that they might be enabled for 
their great work; and all the special dis- 
cipline in the fellowship of thought, con- 
senting will, and affection. We rejoice 
now in the consummation of their deep- 
est wish, and in the future that awaits 
their most faithful and loving service. 
Give grace and vision in this sacred and 

The Ordination of a Class of Students to the Christian 
Ministry. 

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joyous hour; and grant help unto us in 
this our solemn act of ordination. 

[The Laying on of Hands] 

By the authority of the Church, by 
Apostolic sanction, and by this solemn 
laying on of hands, we do now ordain 
thee, and, in the faith and freedom of 
the Gospel, set thee apart to the office 
and work of the Christian ministry: in 
the name of the Father, and the Son, 
and the Holy Spirit. Amen. 

Mercifully with Thy favor look now 
upon these Thy ministers, that they may 
go forth with courage and with a pure 
heart, fervently, remembering the poor, 
comforting the sorrowful, teaching the 
ignorant, and lifting up the afflicted. 
May Thy peace rule in their hearts, and 
the law of kindness dwell upon their 
lips. Guard, guide and keep them in all 
their labors. Enrich them, more and 



LIGHT AND PEACE 55 

more, with patient faithfulness and lov- 
ing wisdom, to the end that souls may 
be won to truth and goodness, and to 
light and peace. Through Jesus Christ, 
our Lord. Amen. 



Jfor &elM$ftring 

GOD, our heavenly Father: 
We rejoice in the special and 
•^|y^ instituted means for the re- 
ligious life opened to us in the Christian 
ministry. We rejoice, also, in all Thy 
servants who have given themselves to 
Christ and His ministry for individual 
good and social progress. We thank 
Thee now for this one life here before 
Thee, and for the great hope, and wit- 
nessing faith, and the growing love, that 
have moved him during these productive 
years of study and waiting. We praise 
Thee for deepening life, for enlarging 
vision, and a growing selfhood. Have 
regard unto him in this act of self-giving 

Ordination of a Young Man to the Christian Ministry. 

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in the name of truth and for the ends 
of religion. Hear the silent prayer of 
friends, in view of his unanxious joy, as 
he thinks of the way in which he has 
been led, and of the opening way that 
lies before him. Grant now the help of 
Thy spirit that it may breathe upon 
him; and aid us in this holy setting 
apart of this one life and its consecra- 
tion for the sake of others. 

[The Laying on of Hands] 

By the authority of the Church, by 
Apostolic sanction, and by this solemn 
laying on of hands, we do now ordain 
thee, and, in the faith and freedom of 
the Gospel, set thee apart to the office 
and work of the Christian ministry: in 
the name of the Father, and the Son, 
and the Holy Spirit. Amen. 

And grant now Thy heavenly blessing 
upon this sacred office; and keep this, 



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Thy servant and minister, in its abiding 
memory and sanctions. Be with him in 
the privacy of his own mind and heart, 
in the retreats of thought and prayer, 
in all contact with the life he tries to 
serve, and in all his enlarging work as 
teacher and pastor. Keep open before 
him an illumined word, and a brighten- 
ing way; and keep him more and more 
in the endowment of strength, of cour- 
age, of patience, and of Thine own 
peace, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
Amen. 




Jfor Consecration of $asitor anb 
people 

GOD, our heavenly Father: 
We rejoice that Thou hast 
called us to serve in the Gospel 
of Thy law, and in the light and life that 
come to men when they unite together 
in Thy name, and in the name of Thy 
Son, who giveth light and peace to the 
world. We rejoice in those who along 
all these years have here been united in 
the consent of thought, in the assurance 
of faith, in the love of what is true and 
good, and in loyal service in behalf of 
ideas, of principles, and of conduct. 

We rejoice also in that noble succes- 
sion in pastoral leadership which has 

Installation of a Pastor. 
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made this Christian society a power in 
itself, and a growing power to this com- 
munity for united reciprocal life, in zeal 
for the promotion of a great cause, in 
religious earnestness and consecration, in 
devotion and sacrifice, which have dis- 
tinguished all these years of a produc- 
tive history. We remember to-day, 
therefore, our great inheritance, the rare 
bequest of thought and character, as 
from a noble company who here walked 
and worked together, who lived and died 
in the faith, and left a holier air to rest 
upon children and children's children. 

Have regard unto us, to-day, in the 
special occasion which has brought us to- 
gether; and have regard unto him, Thy 
servant, whom we welcome to this place, 
to the care of this church, to the wide 
service among the people of a religious 
teacher and spiritual friend, to the 



LIGHT AND PEACE 63 

strenuous joy of responsibility, and to 
the enduring motive of personal en- 
deavor. Grant that here there may be 
intelligent sight of the real end of all 
sympathetic effort for Christian charac- 
ter and spiritual perfection, wise esti- 
mate of instituted means for religious 
accomplishment, and eager, loving use of 
facility and personal power in reaching 
and building up individual lives, and in 
redeeming society to the spirit and tasks 
of a Christian brotherhood. We thank 
Thee for the Christian intelligence, the 
consecrated will, and the holy love, 
which this minister brings for the preach- 
er's message and the pastor's care; and 
we thank Thee also for the appreciative 
temper of mind, the united wish and 
prayer, the quick response in affection 
and service, which here have risen up to 
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64 LIGHT AND PEACE 

open the way to an enlarging ministra- 
tion of a religious life. 

Grant to all who are here banded to- 
gether the will to believe, the will to do, 
and the will to be; and so may doubt 
here grow to faith, distrust and fear give 
place to hope, and sorrow, all bereaved 
life, find the comfort which makes strong 
and the peace that passeth knowledge; 
and over and around and in all, may 
there be the mastery of a living faith, 
and the constant sanction which comes 
of love and obedience. 

And in all our prayer for ourselves to- 
day, we remember, and beseech Thee to 
remember and bless, all pastors and 
churches and congregations of whatever 
name or communion, in this goodly 
town; and we beseech Thee for the town 
itself, that all who live within its borders 
may be faithful to its history and great 



LIGHT AND PEACE 65 

traditions. Give unto us, we pray Thee, 
light and peace, strength and trust, 
unity and fidelity, that so Thy kingdom 
may come and Thy will be done on 
earth as it is in heaven; and unto Thy 
name be all the glory, through Jesus 
Christ, our Lord. Amen. 



(Bntntti* tottf) CfirtJBSt 

GOD, the Giver of light and 
comfort: We look to Thee who 
^!y£jr dost call us to commemorate a 
great past, and to keep open a faith that 
looks to a more fervent future. We de- 
sire to follow the Master's journey, and 
pause with him as He speaks to needy 
souls from the hillside, from darkened 
homes, and, at last, from the seclusion 
of the upper chamber, recalling all the 
scenery of a last hour and the power of 
a personal appeal. We look anew upon 
the picture, at once so sad and so beau- 
tiful. We recall, with vivid gladness, 
the only voice that was inspired to 
speak; and take to heart the benedic- 

Communion. 
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68 LIGHT AND PEACE 

tion that has spread to all receptive 
minds and hearts. Here, to-day, we 
turn to the Saviour's image and pray for 
more of his Spirit, that temptations may 
be resisted, and all efforts towards a more 
positive life in truth and goodness made 
wiser and stronger. Here, at the table 
<of our God's communion, we turn all 
thought of His mercy into an urgent 
memory. Here also we renew our vows, 
reconsecrate our friendships, and invoke 
the shelter of Divine Providence. Here, 
as at the foot of the cross, help us to lay 
down the weaknesses that enfeeble, and 
take up the high resolves which already 
solace our wills. Oh, for the note of 
endless aspiration and for the patience 
of hope, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
Amen. 



3n Grateful ffltmaty 

" God is love ; and he that abideth in love abideth in 
God, and God abideth in him." 

I John 4: 15. 



3 ^fruitful %\it 

GOD, our heavenly Father: 
To whom can we go, but to 
i5iy£f Thee, who art our strength in 
weakness, our light in darkness, and our 
comfort in sorrow? To-day, we know 
not how to speak to each other, nor how 
to interpret to ourselves. We turn to 
Thee, and, first of all, beseech Thee to 
awaken within us the memory of all that 
has been precious in the life of our great 
friend and leader: his wise devotion to 
the college into which he built his 
life; his intelligent administration of its 
affairs in a manifold range of usefulness 
bearing upon its progress and growing 
facilities, and in that loving care and in- 

In Memory of E. H. C. 
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terest which reached the endeavor and 
the struggle of the humblest student. 
Help us to recall the calmness of his 
thought, his unselfish regard for others, 
his generous approval of all that is right 
and good, and his Christ-like pity and 
forgiveness toward all the weak and sin- 
ful. We remember the words, spoken in 
private and in public, which move us to- 
day with new power, because of this 
mystic silence. 

We desire also to remember all that 
he was and is, and will be to us, as a 
part of permanent influence in all the 
relations which distinguished his life: in 
the privacy of his home, in the mainte- 
nance of a loyal service to the church, in 
all his efforts as an educator, and in the 
ampler calls of citizenship. 

Help us, O God, in our sense of grati- 
tude for all that this full life has been 



LIGHT AND PEACE 73 

to us now that we read it anew, know 
anew its noble witness to learning, to 
charity, to religion, and get its larger 
message as from open skies. 

We bow down before Thee, with whom 
are the issues of life and of death. Help 
us all to that acquiescence in grief, which, 
year by year, has been taught from this 
place, and, above all, breathed in the 
prayers that here have daily been put 
up in our behalf. Help these sorrowing 
teachers who waited for his step, were 
cheered, day by day, by the denials 
he so patiently took up, and were in- 
spired more and more by his confident 
sympathy. We remember before Thee 
those who, in great procession along the 
productive years, moved through these 
halls, and bore hence the mark of the 
man they had learned to know, to honor 
and to love. And grant Thy especial 



74 LIGHT AND PEACE 

favor to the students, in all ranks, and 
in all places, here and there, who are 
now enrolled as members of the college. 
Have regard unto their sad and ques- 
tioning hours; and give joy to them 
also, that they came to know so well the 
man and president who greeted their 
coming at first. 

And now, what wait we for but for 
grace and power, both for mind and 
heart; new motive in view of a great ex- 
ample; new ability to take up the tasks 
which a great leader has laid down; 
and new light, also, for comfort to those 
whose sorrow to-day is deepest, that 
there may be to them one fixed and 
tranquil object of thought and affec- 
tion; and help us all to see that it is no 
fractional life that we are called to con- 
template, but a life, forecast and fash- 
ioned in accomplishment, opening more 



LIGHT AND PEACE 75 

and more into its own power and beauty, 
and, at the last, opening forth towards 
the realities of a world from which all 
veils were taken away. O God, most 
merciful and gracious, open our eyes to 
that grateful vision, that so we may be 
enabled to go on, to bear up, and to find 
our highest joy and peace in the field 
of duty to which now Thou dost send 
us back, and in the entrusted daily care 
to which Thou hast appointed us. Grant 
that, from the trembling moments of our 
human life, and from the mourner's 
watch, we may go forth with uplifted 
heart, and a diviner purpose, through 
Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 



gfa Cnbotoeb Heaber 

GOD, to whom all life is 
known, and by whom all hu- 
^|y^ man endeavor is inspired and 
directed: We praise Thee for all great 
causes, and for the instituted means for 
their advancement and consummation. 
Especially do we rejoice in those whom 
Thou didst raise up and endow to be 
the world's teachers for the sake of 
progress, and the world's comforters 
when thought was darkened, when sor- 
row's look was downward, and destiny 
itself was clouded by uncertainty and 
saddened by distrust. We thank Thee 
for the early advocacy of the religious 
ideas and sanctities represented in our 

In Memory of T. J. S. 

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78 LIGHT AND PEACE 

present life, and which we reverently 
associate with the life of the man whom 
we honor in our studies, in the even 
temper of our ways, and in the wider 
horizons for faith and hope. We hear 
across the years, the strong and eager 
advocacy of a saner interpretation of 
Thy Holy Word, of Thy nature, and of 
human destiny, to the one end of liberty 
for mind, relief for conscience, and place 
for affection amid the sorrows of life, 
and in perplexities concerning the future 
way. Hear us, O God, in thanksgiv- 
ing for a marvelous advocacy of Thy 
Fatherhood, of human brotherhood, and 
the ampler forms of the spiritual life, 
that so new impulses might come for 
worship, for the sources of devotion, and 
the greater joy. 

We recall to-day the distinctive teach- 
ing of the great preacher whose throne 



LIGHT AND PEACE 79 

was the pulpit, and the loving earnest- 
ness of the generous teacher of young 
men whose faces were set towards the 
Christian ministry. A grateful tide 
from those who have gone the silent 
way, and from those who, in this world, 
seek to know their great master, sets 
towards all the places illumined by 
his intelligence, cheered by his gracious 
manner, and inspired by his calmer view 
of the future life, and of the daily walk. 
We thank Thee, God, for the light 
of a great mind, the warmth of a great 
heart, and for the even culture of our 
leader whose mission it was to direct 
and appeal. Hear us, in the name of 
the years that have given us the calmer 
sight of a noble man, a wise teacher, and 
a faithful friend; and help us to inter- 
pret this life as it now rises up in an en- 
deared memory, and as seen through 



80 LIGHT AND PEACE 

the love that guarded his home and 
made gentle his declining years. 

Give to us more and more the charm 
of an endeared life; and open to us the 
illumined way of truth, and the wider 
and wider way of duty. We pray in 
the name and as the disciples of Jesus 
Christ. Amen. 



0nt Calleb of <&ob 

GOD, who art our strength, 
grant unto us grace that we 
*^|=^r may wait for Thy peace and 
Thy comfort. We bless Thee for all 
Thy servants who have given their lives 
for others, that they, too, might live. 
We especially thank Thee for Thy ser- 
vant, our brother, who, at the first, 
sought care and suffering, and found joy 
in sacrifice, because of profound and 
affectionate knowledge of the human 
heart and sympathy with human need. 
We remember before Thee his years of 
preparation, and the prayer of his young 
heart that life might open, more and 
more, toward the great uses of denial 

In Memory of I. W. C. 
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82 LIGHT AND PEACE 

and mercy. We remember the day of 
his distinct call, the consecrating words 
that sent him forth, and the consenting 
petition that confidence, and courage, 
and power might come with new respon- 
sibility, and new duties in the far-off 
land. We rejoice that, in the untried 
place, he was eager only for a wise mind 
and an awakened diligence, that so light 
might rise up in darkness, and that in 
Thy light he might see light. 

We rejoice also in his great love for 
goodness, and its world-wide triumph, 
and in that patient hopefulness and 
blessed conservatism of spirit which 
claimed nothing, but simply went on 
loving and serving. 

How are we moved in this place to- 
day as we turn to think of those in the 
far land and in the churches of his 
planting, who wait and long for his com- 



LIGHT AND PEACE 83 

ing! Protect and bless them, and pro- 
tect and bless and help the messengers 
of Thy gospel who remain; guide and 
prosper them in all their holy work and 
give them joy even in exile and priva- 
tion. 

And now, O God, most merciful 
Father, in pity look upon us, who know 
not how to speak to Thee of the sanc- 
tities of our human love and the divine 
intimacies, born of the vigils of sickness 
amid the endearments of home and in 
the lonely watch of the sea. Thou dost 
look down on this faithful sorrow and on 
these dear and outstretched hands. 

All was bright beyond to the vanish- 
ing spirit, for there was no eclipse 
within; and he, who, amid all trial, gave 
dignity to a great mission, found only 
the ripeness of blessing and the sweet- 
ness of heavenly rest. We rejoice that 



84 LIGHT AND PEACE 

eternity was not cheerless to our de- 
voted friend. Grant, therefore, that our 
grief may consecrate our deepest affec- 
tions and interests, and that this, our 
martyr-soul, may move us to a nobler 
purpose for great causes and to rever- 
ence for the saddest need of the world. 

Unite us henceforth to whatever of 
truth and sanctity has ever dwelt on 
earth and found its completion at last: 
through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 




& Uttmtg Me 

GOD, our heavenly Father* 
All our comfort is in Thee, 
and in our most loving thought 
of those who are near Thee. We feel 
that Thou art near us in our sorrow, and 
dost help us to see the light that has 
come to our dearest one, and the light, 
also, that is for us. We thank Thee for 
the precious life that has been lived be- 
fore us. We love to recall what she has 
been as child, and woman, with all the 
grace that came through the years of 
her opening life, in the strength and in 
the beauty of wifehood and motherhood, 
and in the tender affection she had for 
friends, and for those she tried to help. 

In Memory of a Friend. 

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86 LIGHT AND PEACE 

We rejoice, also, in what she is to us 
now, as a risen and translated soul and 
an abiding presence. We shall not think 
of her as of yesterday, but of to-day, in 
all our thought and in all our love of 
things true and good, in all our en- 
deavors after a richer life, and in all our 
efforts to do good and bless others. 

We turn, also, to think of her heav- 
enly life, her true nativity in the world 
of the invisible, and the spiritual. Thy 
love, Thy truth, Thy grace, and Thy 
peace were already sent into her heart, 
to be felt more and more when the days 
of suffering and waiting came. Heaven 
came to us in the look that grew on her 
dear face, in the words she spoke, and 
in the stillness that came at last. We 
feel that she has entered into nearer 
oneness with those gone before, and 
found a more exalted filial affection and 



LIGHT AND PEACE 87 

a more tender love for the angel-life that 
came to her arms and bosom. 

Thou hast only taken her from our 
sight, to fold her more closely as Thine 
own. And we pray that we may all be 
more truly Thine own, through her 
ministry, that all her life in this world 
may be sacred to us; that we may see 
how dear and holy it has been, in the 
home, in the church, and among the 
people whom she tried to serve, and in 
the intimacies of the soul that can never 
be broken. 

Help us to be thankful for these last, 
peaceful days in her home, where she 
longed to be, for gentle hands and sus- 
taining hearts here for her sake. We re- 
joice in the one great love that cheered 
and blessed her in suffering, and looked 
with her into the world of light when it 
broke over her spirit. 



88 LIGHT AND PEACE 

Give us, we beseech Thee, the com- 
fort that was hers, and the peace that 
came as the dawn comes. Help us to 
hear Thy voice in all this silence, as the 
new call to patience and hope and duty, 
the loving voice that bids us go forth 
without fear or regret. Bless all who 
are here to-day in this hushed and rev- 
erent circle. Bless the many friends of 
our beloved one who are not here, who 
yet send to us a great tide of affection 
and appreciating sympathy. Unite us, 
O God, in a consenting faith, we who 
long and long for Thy Divine leading, 
through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 




9 ftipeneb Hiit 

GOD, our Heavenly Father, 
we rejoice in the conscious affil- 
iation with Thyself, for so do 
we know something of our lot, and of 
what is above the reach of circumstance. 
So, also, do we know the unity of our 
human life and the strength and depth 
of those affections that bless our home 
and cheer our ways. 

We thank Thee for the wise love that 
has been here to bless, to guide, and to 
comfort from year to year; and, above 
all, for that ripeness of character, born 
of trust, and the assurance that the best 
part of our treasure is with us still, and 
known to be with us by the very tears 
we shed, in joy and gladness, as well as 

In Memory of Mrs. R. 
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90 LIGHT AND PEACE 

in grief. We think anew to-day of that 
grace in womanhood which here has 
done so much to make life lovely, not in 
aspect, merely, but in reality, and in 
opening life to others to be an inde- 
structible possession. We shall miss the 
familiar object of our affection, but the 
most precious part in the power of char- 
acter remains; day by day, year by 
year, we shall know the strong offices of 
this mother, to cool the fever of our 
souls, as once in childhood and youth, 
to rebuke our disquiet, and to redeem 
our life unto peace. How can we thank 
Thee, God, for the lives that leave 
our earth with benedictions; and how 
bless Thee for their guidance in dark 
places, for their cheer in our toil, and 
for their abiding love amid all care. If 
we, at times, weep their tears, help us 
to see that we can win their peace. 



LIGHT AND PEACE 91 

In the days to come, bless us in the 
memory of one who has been and is so 
dear to us; comfort and help us with 
the assurance of virtues that can never 
be absent; and give us, more and more, 
the vision of a blessed future for the 
soul's wonder, for growing faculties, and 
for an enduring life. Through Jesus 
Christ, our Lord. Amen. 



j§ Htfe of peauttful ^erbice 

GOD, our heavenly Father: 
We look to Thee as the source 
•^|y^ of our life, and the Giver of 
all good, who hast led us in ways we 
knew not, and wilt bring us home at 
last. We rejoice in all Thy guidance 
when or where we cannot see the path, 
and even when the way lies through clouds. 

We know that Thou art with us in the 
night as in the day, in our weakness as 
in our strength, in our sorrow as in our 
joy, and that Thou wilt never leave nor 
forsake us. 

When our friends go from our sight, 
we know that they are not beyond Thy 
care and leading. Thou hast taught us 
that they have but stepped aside to take 

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a divergent path that rises more and 
more into light. 

We thank Thee for the dear life that 
has now gone to the ampler world. 

We thank Thee for what she has been 
to us here in this life — the dear sister, the 
loving aunt, the constant friend — wise 
to us in all her words and wishes, gentle 
in all her intercourse with us, full of the 
encouragement of affection, strong and 
eager for our comfort. 

We thank Thee also for what we have 
been enabled to be to her; for the ten- 
derness and unwearied watch-care, day 
by day, week by week, that has been 
here, to be hands and thought, that her 
care be not too great, and that she 
might be strong in days of weakness. 
We bless Thee, also, that at the last, 
when the upper voices must have been 
more distinct to her than any tones of 



LIGHT AND PEACE 95 

this world can ever be, that those most 
dear to her were with her in all the lov- 
ing silence. 

And hear now our prayer for our- 
selves, that we may see and know that 
death is of Thy ordaining as well as life, 
and be cheered by all the witnesses of 
the spirit, and by Him, above all, who 
is our Saviour, who has told us of the 
many-mansioned house of the Father, 
and marked all the way before us into 
light and immortality. Thou wilt open 
the door to us as to our sister and friend, 
and to all who have gone before, the 
aged, the strong, and the little children. 
May we learn to wait amid all our 
weakness and fear, keeping our minds 
open to Thy message, and our hearts 
more and more to Thy peace. 

Hear us, O God, as the disciples of 
Thy Son. Amen. 



£ Me of (grace anb $otoer 

GOD, Thou who art love and 
who doest all things in love, 
•^|y£f all that Thou sendest and all 
that Thou givest, Thou dost give and 
send in love. Our life, in its source and 
in its discipline and in its results, is out 
of Thy creative and ever-watchful and 
directing will. All that we have in 
home, in companionship, in the affec- 
tion of parents and of children, and in 
daily care and daily good, is from Thee, 
and of Thy great mercy to us. 

Help us to see also that all that Thou 
takest from us, in our most cherished 
objects, our most costly treasure, the 
one that is dearest to thought and dear- 
est to love, even the most blessed gift of 

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Thyself and Thy spirit, — help us to see 
that this too is of Thy love, and is of 
Thy great mercy towards us. So we 
thank Thee to-day for the life of this 
mother and friend; for all that she has 
been to us in shaping influence in the 
lives of children and grandchildren; for 
the power of that truth in character, 
that sweetness of love, that greatness of 
faith and hope, which transcends our 
best words, and flows around and en- 
ters into our lives and characters to 
make them strong and to give them 
motive. We have not any of us known 
all Thy goodness to this one dear life, 
until now that silence has come to these 
lips and stillness to this face and breast. 
We rejoice even that Thou dost so order 
that more and more shall be seen and 
known, as we live on in renewing mem- 
ory of the good; and daily bring up in 



LIGHT AND PEACE 99 

more vivid thought and quicker love, 
the precious image of our mother, and 
friend, interpreting words and deeds in 
larger, truer, better ways, and seeing all 
the character in stronger and more 
lovely aspects. So is it with children 
and children's children here to-day, and 
so is it with friends who have come 
hither w T ith voiceless love to bid fare- 
well to the familiar features, and give 
new and faithful speed to the risen and 
newly clothed spirit. 

And while we thank Thee for all that 
this mother has been to us, we pray that 
some new emphasis out of our hearts 
may be given to what we have been en- 
abled to be to her. How good and com- 
forting to recall what, as sons and 
daughters, we have been to this dear 
one, especially in all these recent years. 
Renew within us the sanctities, we pray 



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Thee, that have been the occasion of our 
most helpful words and actions. We 
praise and bless Thee that, to the last, 
this dear mother had the grateful and 
most reverent care, was the object of a 
watching and waiting love, of an eager, 
anxious affection. Hear, to-day, the un- 
spoken prayer of all these hearts, and 
grant Thy peace and Thy assurance 
unto them. Help us all to look up, and 
so enable our minds that things unseen 
shall seem and be the more real things to 
us. And while we patiently wait and 
work, give to us growing vision of those 
who walk in glorious company amid 
diviner scenes. Help us to reach forth 
for the descending mantle of our sainted 
ones, and, above all, help us to live in 
the light of their brightening lives. And 
of Thy great love, bless us and keep us. 
Through Jesus Christ. Amen. 



3n Htfe'ss Cbenms 



' Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and the 
evening to rejoice." 

Psalm 65 : 8. 




jfor tfje dottier to Reflect 

HAT need is there, O God, for 
me to turn my thought back 
that I may read anew the 
silent way, and anew compute the way 
that opens before my feet — most of all 
before my thought and love? In all 
things, help me to aspire, that the up- 
ward way may be open, becoming more 
and more an endowed path. Help me 
to see the way I have come — what toils 
and care have been met, what obstacles 
in the climbing way, and what promise 
lies along the road that leads to mastery 
and the Saviour's rest. Nor can I for- 
get that it is the rest after active toil, 
born of choice amid the world's need, 
and, also, after the accepted toil for the 
sake of those who suffer and wait. 

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Now, when the years are few, and I 
reach out for the beckoning hands, give 
light and strength, that all the past may 
have aspects of promise and all the 
future the glory of an accomplished 
peace. Comfort me in view of all life's 
sad days; and in Thy forgiving mercy, 
give light. Amen. 



Jfor tfje Jleto Baton 

GOD, how else shall we think 
of the soul's new life than as 
■^H^jf 1 the dawn of a new day? So 
has it appeared to Christians all along 
the way from the earliest diseipleship. 
It is good to think of religion as a first 
touch of light and warmth, as it comes 
to heal, to start growth, and to open 
life into beauty and fragrance. So will 
life come to many a silent soul; so will 
it come to wasting lives under the stress 
of sorrow, and to many a strained and 
watching eye turned to the brightening 
future. Nor do I put up this prayer for 
a future morning in some far-off world, 
but for the glow of life and the kindled 
glory of a soul that daily fronts its im- 

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mortality. And yet, who can doubt the 
effect of the new radiance that will dawn 
for the soul when at last the happier 
season breaks over its wonder? Oh, for 
a growing life amid all our cares, and 
amid all the ministry of our waiting; 
and may joy and quietude be ours when 
the emancipated soul rises to repose! 
May life refresh while we stay. May 
life break over us in the expectation of 
the new dawn when we go. Amen. 




Jfor tfje foul's! Hiit m (Sob 

ERE to-day, in life's evening, 
may I rest in Thee, who art 
the Eternal One and the Heav- 
enly Father, the Divine Energy that 
always gives itself to deliver from the 
low place of struggle! And, yet, I am 
to govern myself for the sake of charac- 
ter in the name of destiny, of salvation 
and of heaven! For these I am to wait, 
and not for any mere transfer to an 
upper abode. And yet, may I be saved 
from the self-culture that ends in itself, 
wholly ignorant of the law of service. 
More and more, the question of life is, 
What shall I do with my wider thought, 
my deeper feeling, my abiding skill? 
Shall I set them down to the account of 

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place or station, or to the real account 
of spiritual force and inward life? Here, 
where I am, may I live in self-denial, in 
sympathy, in devotion for the larger 
self, indeed, and yet more for the joy 
and the peace of the world in the service 
of humanity. 

Above all, therefore, may I see that 
religion is a near quality. The word of 
faith, the energy of the spirit, is in the 
mind and heart. O God, Thou art near. 
Christianity is near to meet every crisis 
in history. We draw nigh to Thee and 
take up the ascent to the eternal life. 
Amen. 




Jfor tfie $otoer to ^sfptre 

OW, O Lord, can I become 
a real disciple of Jesus, the 
Christ, so that all thought and 
feeling may be shaped into character, 
and character itself shaped into the 
divine likeness? While I rejoice in the 
freedom which comes of good habits, I 
rejoice more in the soul's relationship to 
an eternal world towards which man 
may constantly aspire. I thank Thee, 
therefore, for life's inspirations, which 
are better than all rules and detail of 
conduct. That to which man aspires 
touches the soul in the deeper places, 
and helps him to discover the power 
of a spiritual world, and to cast the real 
self into an approved purpose. Deep 

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responds to deep; and a tide of the 
spirit forever obeys the heavenly attrac- 
tions! Oh, that I may be moved and 
drawn by the power and the light that 
are from above! May I have the pas- 
sion for righteousness, for Thou, O God, 
hast made man for Thyself. More and 
more may I yield to life's inspirations, 
through him who is the Life of life. 
Amen. 



Jfor tfje (grace of <^ob 

THOU, who didst give grace for 
man's salvation: All Thy great 
^|y^ injunctions and precepts rest 
on the truth of Thy favor made to ap- 
pear to all men. It is Thy grace appear- 
ing to all men which gives us ground for 
hope, and direction for our whole life. 
Help us, therefore, to take our life as a 
reality — as having worth and dignity, 
to be lived in truth, and in that earnest- 
ness which saves life from failure. Keep 
us all in the desire of an accomplished 
good. Help us to see that the grace of 
God is here and now, saving us, and 
helping us to save others by the very 
processes of the spirit, by which God's 

own grace becomes man's noblest service. 

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Save us, O God, from formal obser- 
vances, and help us to share Thy nature 
and destiny, so that we may always be 
in Thee, and always rest in an assured 
immortality. Amen. 




Jfor tfje &oul'* ^oberetgntp 

EAR, O God, my prayer for 
the control of my fears and my 
desires, that I may use them 
to the one end of proper balance in char- 
acter, and that the soul may stand master 
over all. Help me to see that the high 
mark of manhood is the self-governing 
temper by which the man not only con- 
trols the self, but puts himself in accord 
with all that stands secure, and is fair 
and good. Save me, therefore, from all 
vagrancy of thought, from all selfish 
will, from all wasteful affections, that so 
I may work in harmony with Thy com- 
plete order, seeing and knowing, day by 
day, that the majesty of all conduct is in 
the motive that fills and guides it. All 

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motive begins and ends in Thee, who art 
the secret of all methods. Right is 
right because Thou art right and good; 
and right is right in our human life, 
because Thou dost bind us to duty be- 
yond all the force of custom. 

Teach me the splendor of life's high 
achievement in spiritual manhood; and 
keep before me the attractions of duty, 
and the power of an endless life. Help 
me to see how ample is the scope of man's 
life in capacity, in sympathy, and in 
enthusiasms. Amen. 




Jfor tlje enterprise of Hobe 

GOD, Thou didst frame the 
human mind and give all view- 
less emotions. Thou didst give 
the majesty of hope, the enterprise of 
love, and the springs of power. Help 
me, therefore, to guard these, our highest 
faculties, so that I may never suffer 
them to be put aside by fear or conven- 
ience, or to be stifled by any doubt. 
Help me, and those with whom my life 
is cast, to aim at perfection. Teach me 
to keep pure the standard within, to 
avoid all sudden spasms of thought and 
feeling, to keep healthy the desire for 
permanent good, and to win the ascent 
step by step. 

For what more can I ask in the spirit 

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of faith, and in view of the whole realm 
of things open to conviction and to con- 
science? Give me the careful steps of 
thought; above all, give me the haunt- 
ing sense of the infinite and the perfect, 
amid all the shifting borders of knowl- 
edge. 

O Thou, to whom belongeth the un- 
seen rule of the world, may I be Thy 
subject in obedience, and in trust. This 
is my low-breathed prayer amid all the 
silences of secluded years. Amen. 



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